The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.

Acceptance of Liberal Republican Nomination as President. May 29, 1872.

Note 1.O. W. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table: I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Bernard Shaw: Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman: The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. [back]